CoroCoro Comics (Japanese: コロコロ コミックCoroCoro Comics) is a Japanese magazine published by Shogakukan. The name comes from the Japanese phenomimekorokoro, meaning a small, fat, spherical thing, because kids supposedly like them.

CoroCoro regularly promotes toys and video games related to manga franchises, releasing stories and articles featuring them. Pokémon's big success in Japan owes to this in a way; Pocket Monsters Blue was sold exclusively through the magazine at first. Of course, this helped CoroCoro's sales as well. Throughout its history, CoroCoro has held many illustration contests for the Pokémon Trading Card Game.

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History

The magazine was launched in 1977, aiming at young elementary-school age boys, younger than the age for shōnen readers, which is about teenager age, but then became one of the most popular magazines in Japan. CoroCoro is now currently a monthly manga magazine, along with its three sister publications, Bessatsu CoroCoro and CoroCoro Ichiban!, which are only released every two months; and CoroCoro G, which is released twice a year. It is known as a source for Pokémon news, as many announcements pertaining to both the anime and games come to fans by way of the magazine. It also showcases Pokémon manga, having released Pokémon Adventures since the Gold, Silver & Crystal chapter. In addition to Pokémon, other popular CoroCoro comics include Doraemon, Donkey Kong, Kirby, and Beyblade.

Other series

Besides Pokémon, CoroCoro also promotes other manga series. This is a list of those series.